When a group of teachers at a sixth form college in Warwickshire went on strike their employers were entitled to withhold a proprtional amount of pay. For the college this was based on the number of working days in the year but the teachers argued that the correct calculation should be based on the total number of days in a calendar year. As the Supreme Court came to a final decision in this case they made reference to an 1870 Act of Parliament called the Apportionment Act. In this episode we also discuss the role that the law has to play in labour disputes in general.

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